The Civil Justice Research Initiative continuously reviews research on the civil justice system. Links to research will be added periodically.

ERWIN CHEMERINSKY

The Supreme Court’s decisions on constitutional rights are well known and much talked about. But individuals who want to defend those rights need something else as well: access to courts that can rule on their complaints. And on matters of access, the Court’s record over the past generation has been almost uniformly hostile to the enforcement of individual citizens’ constitutional rights.

REBECCA L. SANDEFUR

The Civil Justice Research Initiative explores, through interdisciplinary academically-based and independent research, how the civil justice system can be made more available to everyone seeking relief.